All Things Performance

Chip Huyen

Author of AI Engineering

I'm Chip Huyen, a writer and computer scientist. I'm building infrastructure or real-time ML. I also teach Machine Learning Systems Design at Stanford. Previously, I was with Snorkel AI, NVIDIA, Netflix, Primer, Baomoi.com (acquired by VNG). I helped launch Coc Coc - Vietnam’s second most popular web browser with 20+ million monthly active users. In my free time, I travel and write. After high school, I went to Brunei for a 3-day vacation which turned into a 3-year trip through Asia, Africa, and South America. During my trip, I worked as a Bollywood extra, a casino hostess, and a street performer. I’m the author of four bestselling Vietnamese books. I’m working on an English book on machine learning interviews.

Thorsten Ball

Co-Founder of Amp

Thorsten Ball is the Co-Founder of Amp.

Dylan Martin

Engineering Lead at PostHog

Dylan leads the feature flag team lead at PostHog. He loves typed languages, skiing, jazz piano, producing music, and powerlifting.

Janani Narayanan

Senior Staff Engineer at Uber

Janani Narayanan is a Senior Staff Engineer at Uber.

Gunnar Morling

Senior Principal Technologist at Confluent

Gunnar Morling is an open-source software engineer in the Java and data streaming space, currently working as a Technologist at Confluent. Previously, he helped to build a realtime stream processing platform based on Apache Flink and led the Debezium project, a distributed platform for change data capture. He is a Java Champion and has founded multiple open source projects such as Hardwood, kcctl, JfrUnit, and MapStruct. Gunnar is an avid blogger (morling.dev) and has spoken at various conferences like QCon, Java One, and Devoxx. He lives in Hamburg, Germany.

Piotr Gankiewicz

Founder & CTO of LaserData

Founder & CTO of LaserData, Apache Iggy Committer, PPMC, and a full-time open-source contributor. In a previous chapter, I spent over a decade in the C#/.NET ecosystem building a wide range of applications, including high-performance systems.

Dominik Tornow

CEO at Resonate HQ

Dominik Tornow is CEO and founder of Resonate HQ, Inc. Dominik focuses on correctness, reliability, and scalability of distributed systems. He is the author of Thinking in Distributed Systems.

Dor Laor

CEO of ScyllaDB

Dor Laor is the CEO of ScyllaDB. Previously, Dor was part of the founding team of the KVM hypervisor under Qumranet that was acquired by Red Hat. At Red Hat Dor was managing the KVM and Xen development for several years. Dor holds an MSc from the Technion and a Phd in snowboarding.

Adrien Grand

Engineer at turbopuffer

Adrien is an engineer at turbopuffer focused primarily on full-text search. Prior to joining turbopuffer, he worked as a distinguished engineer at Elastic. He as an Apache Lucene committer, with over 15 years of experience building text search systems.

Gwen Shapira

Co-founder & CPO of Nile

Gwen is a co-founder and CPO of Nile (thenile.dev). She has 25 years of experience working with code and customers to build reliable and scalable data architectures - most recently as the head of Cloud Native Kafka engineering org at Confluent. Gwen is a committer to Apache Kafka, author of “Kafka - the Definitive Guide” and "Hadoop Application Architectures". You can find her speaking at tech conferences or talking data at the SaaS Developer Community.

Georg Kreuzmayr

Software Engineer at TigerBeetle

Georg Kreuzmayr is a Software Engineer at TigerBeetle, where he works on database internals and low-level systems infrastructure. His work spans high-performance networking, deterministic simulation testing, and low-level protocol implementation. He is based in Munich / Germany.

Avi Kivity

CTO and Co-Founder of ScyllaDB

Avi Kivity, CTO of ScyllaDB, is known mostly for starting the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) project, the hypervisor underlying many production clouds. He has worked for Qumranet and Red Hat as KVM maintainer until December 2012. Avi is now CTO of ScyllaDB, a company that seeks to bring the same kind of innovation to the public cloud space.

Catherine Jue

Co-Founder of KERNEL

Catherine Jue is the Co-Founder of KERNEL.

Den Odell

Author at Manning & Staff Engineer at Canva

Den Odell is an Author at Manning and Staff Engineer at Canva

Sam Rose

Developer Educator at ngrok

Sam Rose is a Developer Educator at ngrok creating deep, visual, and interactive content aimed at helping developers truly understand the topics they're reading about.

Cristian Velazquez

Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Uber

Cristian Velazquez is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer on the Maps Production Engineering team at Uber. He works on multiple efficiency initiatives across multiple organizations. He leads the GC tuning efforts across the company.

Tanel Poder

Performance Nerd at PoderC LLC

Tanel Poder is a long-time computer performance geek, working on various complex systems like (Oracle) database clusters, modern Big Data & cloud technologies and anything running on Linux/Unix. He has built and fixed enterprise data systems all around the world, this has also resulted in building a few small-but-very-fun tech companies around better tools and methods. He has two patents in the data virtualization space and has realized that this is enough. In addition to his R&D, he occasionally delivers consulting, advisory and training to companies and talks about performance & troubleshooting both at public conferences and his video channels available at his website.

Almog Gavra

Co-Founder at Responsive

Hello, I'm Almog: co-founder of Responsive! I've spent a decade working on industry's hardest problems in distributed systems, starting with search infrastructure at LinkedIn before moving on to realtime data processing. I enjoy sharing insights I've stumbled on throughout my career about the internals of data systems and the future of data infrastructure.